New History of the Jews, Paperback

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their an...

Reducere. This timely book is the first to cover the history of Jews from the times of Alexander the Great and Caesar to Idi Amin and Nelson Mandela. Jews ha...

Reducere. Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating ...

Contributor(s): Author: Devin E. NaarTouted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans, " the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once hom...

Reducere. The current revival of antisemitism in Europe and the demonization of Jews in parts of the Muslim world give special importance to the exposure of ...

Reducere. This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other...

By Elias Friedman, O.C.D. Preface by Msgr. Eugene Kevane Introduction by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D. Jewish Identity is a prophetic reading of the signs o...

Description World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic ...

Reducere. In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and absta...

Reducere. Just a few years earlier, Jews living in Portugal were dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity. Many of these New Chris...

Reducere. The definitive chronicle of the lives, experiences, and contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier. What revi...

Reducere. The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another...

The other SchindlersPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Agnes Grunwald-SpierNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 159 x 185 ...

Reducere. Long before the Jewish settlements in North America, Sephardic Jews came to the Caribbean, first as crew members on Columbus's ships. By the 1600s,...

Reducere. A Fresh Look at 4, 000 Years of Jewish History--Authoritative, Complete...Funny Through witty, illustrated narrative, celebrated artist Stan Mack w...

The true story of the Sharps, a family who saved the lives of refugees, dissidents and Jews on the eve of WWII. Ties in with a new TV documentary f...

Reducere. At least 8, 000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fou...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marc DollingerMarc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal conse...

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community--which had existed in Iraq for more than 2, 500 years--was displaced followin...

Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Bel...

Reducere. Richie Zweigenhaft's Jews, Palestinians, and Friends: 45 Years at a Quaker College (Sort of a Memoir) is a history of the intersection of religions...

Reducere. One Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when B...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the authors of the bestselling "The Secret War Against the Jews" comes an explosive work that explores the links between the Vatica...

From Judaism's rich history of prophetic justice comes an inspiring call to action.Why is it that Jews are so involved in causes dedicated to justi...

Reducere. A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy did the Holocaust ...

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of ...

Reducere. The basic vocabulary of Jewish spiritual life, explained with humor, insight and relevance to guide you on a historical and spiritual journey throu...

Reducere. Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era...

"A remarkable achievement. Bartal presents the broad contours of nineteenth-century East European Jewish history even as he reworks them into a non...

DescriptionThis masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, ...

Reducere. The last several decades have seen the emergence of a remarkable phenomenon: a Jewish rebirth that is occurring throughout Africa. A variety of dif...

In 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of Jerusalem. Sixty years later, its ruin was completed when...

Reducere. This classic study, by the late John Doyle Klier, is considered a seminal text in modern Jewish history by one of the foremost scholars in the fiel...

Reducere. Description: Edith Schaeffer lovingly encourages Christians to embrace the Jewishness of their faith. When the early church repudiated its Jewish r...

In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide has opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a har...

Reducere. Comedy is full of famously funny Jews, from Groucho Marx to Larry David to Sarah Silverman. This smart and funny book includes tales from many of t...

Reducere. In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders...

Demonstrates that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians imagined the future of Rome in strikingly different ways, revealing profound differences in t...

Reducere. "As a researcher and collector of historical source material, Mr. Gilbert has no peer among contemporary historians." --The New York Times Accordin...

Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of ...

Reducere. Winner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the peop...

Known as Lemberg in German and Lw w in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for m...

Reducere. How Far Would You Go To Stay True to Yourself? Spain, 1492. On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a...

Reducere. The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all tim...

Reducere. "The most important book you will read this year."--Caitlin Flanagan, author of To Hell with All That WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD - Th...

Reducere. Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beg...

Reducere. Today's prophecy students continue to benefit from the insightful and biblical writings of 19th-century theologian George H. Pember. Though "Earth'...

Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1, 300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine ...

Auschwitz and Birkenau were separated from each other by about a 45-minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evol...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: V. V. TomekEditor: Mirek KatzlFor more than eight centuries, the Jews of Prague lived in the Prague ghetto. During that tim...

From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarel...

Description"An important beginning to understanding the truth over myth about Judaism in American history" (New York Journal of Books), Steven R. W...

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite ...

Reducere. "Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."--P...

Reducere. SS Kommandant Rudolph H ss (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James H. Jr. WardenAbraham and his wife made their African slave a surrogate mother and she bore Abraham a half-black heir....

Reducere. What if the history of America's largest Indian nation is actually a polite modern fiction, one invented by "anthropologists and other friends"? In...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner, 2015 National Jewish Book Award presented by the Jewish Book CouncilFor much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli ...

From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to ...

In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become...

Reducere. Following the 1972 Olympics one sportswriter referred to Mark Spitz, winner of seven gold medals, as "the first great Jewish athlete." He couldn't ...

Reducere. History began with a Divine warning not to approach a forbidden tree of lust to rule over others. History is ending with that new actor on the stag...

DescriptionThis volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1889, Moses Klein published Migdal Zophim, a collection of essays that offers farming--in both Palestine and New Jersey--as a solutio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacqueline Dembar GreeneKidnapped from her parents during the Portuguese Inquisition, 12-year old Isobel BenLazar was sent ...

Reducere. DescriptionJudaism is a religion and culture based on memory. Upon one festival to another, Jews are rminded of what brought them to the land of Is...

Reducere. In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors t...

Within the pages of this book lie over forty years of intense Bible study and research that I am going to share with you. The Jerusalem Council is ...

Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research inte...

Reducere. The Bridge to the New Testament covers the 420 years between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. This period gave ...